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"My name is Layla, and I was  born under an unlucky star."Â
So begins the story of Layla Roy, a woman who has defied the fates. Despite being born under an inauspicious horoscope, she is raised to be educated and independent by her eccentric grandfather, Dadamoshai. And, by cleverly manipulating the hand fortune has dealt her, she has even found love with Manik Debâa man betrothed to another. All were minor miracles in India that spring of 1943, when young women's lives were predeterminedâif not by the stars, then by centuries of family tradition and social order.Â
Layla's life as a newly married woman takes her away from home and into the jungles of Assam, where the world's finest tea thrives on plantations run by native labor and British efficiency. But her remote home is not safe from the powerful changes sweeping India on the heels of the Second World War. Their colonial society is at a tipping point, and Layla and Manik find themselves caught in a perilous racial divide that threatens their very lives.Â
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"Patel's remarkable debut effortlessly transports readers back to India on the brink of independenceâ¦fans of romantic women's fiction will be enchanted by Teatime for the Firefly's enthralling characters, exotic setting, and evocative writing style." Â
âBooklist, starred review
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